Chris Martin

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.